#229 Sunflower 10/17/19

Another larger-than-most painting, 7x9 inches.  I got the most gorgeous sunflowers at the Farmer's Market over the summer, and took lots of photos of them.  I decided tonight to finally paint one of those photos.  All the ones that included the vase looked weird.  The flowers are over-sized, making the vase look undersized, causing the whole still-life portrait to just look off-kilter.  So I did a close up.  But the close-up had the flower facing down, sunflowers need to face the sun....so I rotated it.  The painting went easy, I only put a few colors on the palette and went to town.  I started with the center, easily deciding that painting the pattern of seeds would lead me to cry, so I didn't even go down that road.  I did try to put in some dramatic colors though: purples and reds.  The petals seemed very straightforward.  The background was minimal....greens as the bottom and a bit of blue sky at the top.  Boom, I was done.  My reaction every time I look at it?  Yuck.  The style I was going for is missing.  I don't think it's a bad painting, it's just not what I intended.  Maybe I should have painted the seed pattern after all.  Oh well....try, try again.